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Yes, if a person's illness can endanger a community then that person can be quarantined without consent. Health departments have that power in order to protect the public. There are people with untreatable diseases being held in isolation at any given time.

Yes, if there is a certainty that a biological/chemical threat will spread if infected/exposed people come into contact with non-infected people.

The CDC reserves the right to detained and isolate any people who they believe can spread a biologic or chemical threat, to the general population.

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